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I shouldn't, but I always enjoy these stories:
http://www.wwgazette.co.uk/2012/10/road-rage-cyclist-punched-motorist-police-appeal/
"An 18-year-old man was punched in the face by a cyclist in Titchfield in an unprovoked road rage attack."
Unprovoked?
http://imageshack.us/a/img339/3439/orlyindian.jpg"The victim was a passenger in his friend’s Peugeot 106 car travelling along Southampton Hill in the direction of Park Gate when the incident happened at about 5pm last Thursday (October 18)."
"They came across a cyclist who was in the middle of the carriageway as they approached the St Margaret’s Lane roundabout.
Having shouted at the cyclist to move out of the way, the motorists then stopped at the roundabout and the cyclist pulled up alongside them and started banging on the passenger side window.
The window smashed and the suspect then punched the victim causing his nose to bleed."http://cdn.new.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/1/5/0/0/5/9/1/orig-11500591.jpg
"The suspect is described as:
White man"The occupants of the car are described as:
Utter cunts -
POLICE are appealing for sightings of a cyclist found dead at the roadside near Bucknell.
They believe the 51-year-old man may have fallen from his bike after suffering a medical condition but are trying to trace his movements before his death.
He was found around 9.30pm last night (Monday October 22) beside the B4367 on the approach to Bucknell.
Police believe the man had been riding his blue and white Ridgeback hybrid cycle along a back lane from Brampton Bryan towards Bucknell, joining the B4367 just outside Bucknell and then continuing towards the village.
He was found about 100 yards from the junction and police believe he may previously have been in Leintwardine.
The cyclist is described as around 18 to 20 stone with long black greying hair. He was wearing a red walker's jacket and blue jeans. -
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2012-10-22/cyclist-dies-after-collision/
A cyclist has died after being involved in a collision with a car on Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, Essex last night.
The incident took place close to the junction of Cambridge Road. The 23-year-old cyclist was travelling towards Halstead when he was in collision with a Ford Fiesta.
The Fiesta was driven by a a 20-year-old man from the Halstead area, who was travelling in the same direction.
The cyclist was taken to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford in a critical condition but died this morning.
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I'm always surprised at people leaving £1k bikes unlocked outside even rural cafes, out of sight. Definitely wouldn't do it in Eton-upon-scrote.
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This is the bike in question.
Maybe ditch one of the bottles and bring a lock next time?
PS. I love how the newspaper has cropped the bike and left its owner, when obviously, no offence intended to Austin Reynolds, the bike is much more interesting!
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The ride partner didn't want someone stealing his carrot cake.
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Er, he left it unlocked?
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2122465_charity_ride_bicycle_stolen_by_little_vagabond
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http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/emergency-services/2012/10/17/one-dead-after-shropshire-crash/
http://www.shropshirelive.com/2012/10/17/man-dies-in-south-shropshire-collision/On the B4368 Craven Arms to Diddlebury at 08:15 today.
A cyclist died at the scene, another man suffered a broken leg and is in hospital after being hit by a second vehicle while tending to the cyclist.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
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Looks horribly narrow.
I don't want to speculate at all, but it does make me more determined than ever to ride somewhere towards the right of the lane on these kind of roads, you just don't want a lorry to even THINK about passing you there (and I am not saying that one did here).
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Apparently he's fine, and he's blaming the bus driver.
http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/topstories/9985302.Lucky_escape_for_Surbiton_bus_smash_cyclist/
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An unfortunate number of references to bike helmets (he was wearing one).
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Well today was epically shit.
I had my brakes serviced on Wednesday last week, the chain was fine before that, but after I got the service it seemed clunky, anyway, I was planning to take it back to them when I got home to get it looked at.
Unfortunately I didn't make it.
I left at 3:30pm from South Woodford, up Hermon Hill, a bit blowy and I wondered if I was going slower than last week if it was just because it was uphill.
I made it passed Snaresbrook station going up the hill, and my chain snapped.
Fuck. Not had that happen before.
So I pushed my bike up Hollybush Hill to the Green Man, push it round the roundabout, I wait till there's no-one in the left-turn lane before crossing the sliproad for the A12, but some arsehole in the wrong lane and not signalling beeps his horn at me, so I shout abuse at him, doubt he can hear me though.
Made it to Leytonstone, met a lady at the lights on a folding bike, asked her if she knew where there was a bike shop. 'I'll show you', she said. 'Er, my chain's snapped'. So she explained, just by Wanstead station. Called them up, yep we can sort that.
Scooted along there, got the bike in, they said 'look this chain is worn, see here's the wear tool'. I said 'I did ask them to check it in the other bike shop, but it seems they don't like to replace things till they are completely worn out'. 'Well it might be a good idea on a bike that gets as much load as this one does', he said. Anyway, he fitted a new link, £5, bike fine, slightly jumpy, but now an hour late.
Decide I can't make it to Waterloo before the 4:45-7 pm cycle blackout, so I tell my GPS to take me home.
I call my wife at work 'you need to pick the kids up'. She ain't impressed, but tough.
Satnav takes me on the A106 (Grove Green Road/Ruckholt Road/Victoria Park Road). It's even worse than I remembered, next to the thundering A12, I take primary mostly to stop the people trying to get past, and I pass the same coach several times at lights.
Turn up Victoria Park Road, decide that I will use the cycle lane, as there are, unusually no cars parked inside it, and it would be polite to let the car behind past, rather than blocking him, especially as it's uphill and my bike weighs 25kg.
Unfortunately if you follow the streetview you'll see the cycle lane lasts about 50 yards, and just as it is petering out the coach overtakes me and by the time it's completed its overtake the cycle lane is gone and it's just inches from me. Not fun.
Realise that I'm heading towards Bishopsgate, so might as well try my luck at Waterloo.
Journey from there, not bad, although there's a man wearing what appear to be swimming trunks who keeps jumping lights and at one of the lights fails to get off cleanly, and as I'm behind him I have to abort with a taxi up my backside.
Head into Waterloo station and approach the staff member near platform 12. Just as I do some arsehole comes past and says 'get your fucking bike out of the way'. His mate follows this by slamming it into me. I tell him he's going to get arrested if he carries on, but he doesn't seem very worried.
Woman tells me you can't get on, ask over there. So I ask over there, they say you can't get on, I'll get a leaflet. I don't need a leaflet, I just want to get home, after 7pm they say. So can I get a refund? '£10 charge' (the ticket cost £10.) So is there anywhere I can go? They say I can go to Basingstoke. 'So if I buy an extra ticket to Basingstoke I can go home?' They say yes but don't seem sure, and when I ask where to buy the ticket, it's in the ticket office with a mile long queue.
So I buy something from Costa Fuckingfortune, and drink it while trying to buy a ticket on my phone, but fail, and decide I can't be arsed to hang around till 10 past 7, or queue in the ticket office for some odd ticket (Farncombe) for a train that will probably have left by the time I've got the ticket and I'll just get going.
So I head over Westminster Bridge, down the Kings Road, over Putney Bridge, Lower Richmond Road, then make the error of turning up Roehampton Lane (satnav gone flat). That was stupid, it's all uphill and leads onto the A3.
Nevermind.
I stop at petrol station and buy two Mountain Dews for £2, and drink both. Polish bloke driving a Europcar van approaches me, looks at my tyres and asks if I have a pump. I do. Apparently he's got a bike in his van. He's not gone very long, considering what a shit pump it is, I'd be surprised if he got 20psi out of it. Anyway.
Go hell-for-leather down the A3, I find it a bit scary, and have to cut across two lanes of traffic to turn right towards Kingston.
Safely navigated, I keep going, I'm heading towards Surbiton station, i can't be bothered to cycle all the way home, especially as I already have a ticket. Suddenly I realise, I've lost my glasses (prescription Oakleys). I wonder if I left them in the petrol station when I was helping the Polish bloke. Or maybe they fell out on the A3. Anyway, I cycle back, on the pavement, headlight pointing in the cycle lane. I find them only 1/4 of a mile or so down the hill. Hurray.
Make it to Surbiton, haul the bike up 36 steps and then down 28 steps to the platform.
Having done this I'm told that there are signal problems in the Surbiton area. Wait there for half-an-hour while they say this. Drink beer (always come prepared). Then they announce that the train on platform 2 is now going the opposite direction. I ask the man on the platform how long before it goes, as I don't want to be hauling my bike onto the wrong platform and then miss the train. 'You'd better hurry' So bike goes up 28 steps, then down 28 steps.
I make it. Yay. Only took five-and-a-half hours.
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grinning pervert's
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Police in Selby are appealing for information after a 73-year-old cyclist was found with serious injuries on the B1222 on "Cawood Straight" at Cawood near Selby.
Police were called by the ambulance service at around 12:15pm on Saturday 13 October 2012 after the cyclist was found injured on the road.
Police need to establish how he sustained his injuries and are appealing for anyone who saw the cyclist riding along the B1222 or saw him fall or collide with anything, to contact them.
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Hit by a bus at 7am
Looks like bus turned right here:
Streetview is a mess.
Sounds like the police could use some witnesses.
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My mum is a grandparent.
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There's a major flaw with this though - it should be "fewer riders are doping".
No, you can have less or more depending on whether their blood is in the fridge or in their body at the moment.
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Don't know if it's just me, but it seems to me that Lance Armstrong's doping regime is rather more interesting than watching him ever was.
Nothing specific to his riding style of course, it's all tedious if you ask me (nobody was, I know)....
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Took much the same route this time (towards S Woodford), except Snaresbrook Road (past Eagle Pond, then down past Snaresbrook Station) instead of Whipps Cross Road (better, but turning right onto Snaresbrook road it seemed like, despite the presence of the ASL, the traffic lights to turn right onto Snaresbrook Road would never go green, so I went through the red light), and King Henry's Walk/Downs Park Road instead of Dalston Lane.
Passed secondary school with 12-foot high fence. Fuck that place looks scary. Apparently it's one of the best schools in the country?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8341428/Mossbourne-Academy-A-tale-of-high-expectations.-.-.-and-no-excuses.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/mossbourne-academy-a-class-act-thats-hard-to-follow-7758183.htmlWon't be moving to Hackney any time soon, I didn't even want to stop at the traffic lights never mind send my kids to school there.
Not a bad route.
I still need to try Mile End Road, but my GPS is flat so probably next time.
Shouted at a driver today, car stopped up zebra crossing to let peds cross, he came steaming up the inside (towards the side the pedestrians needed to meet), then pulled out again cos he was turning right at the red light, and stopped right inside the ASL (traffic light was red when he got there, so no excuse, just a cunt). I gestured at him, he wound down his window, I told him that it was for bikes, and he said 'you shoudn't ride on the pavement', I said 'it's not a pavement, it's a crossing' then he said 'where's your helmet' I said 'what's it to got to do with you?', and he said 'health + safety'. I probably could have been a bit more articulate, and said 'I'd be turning right here but you're blocking the way, you cunt' but I had had 3/4 of a bottle of wine for lunch, and didn't mention about him driving like a cunt at the zebra crossing either.
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